Parchment, Printing and Hypermedia – Communication and World Order Transformation (New Directions in World Politics) - Softcover

Deibert, Ronald J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231107137 ISBN 13: 9780231107136

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Interweaving media theory and historical analysis, this book explores the effect new digital-telecommunication technologies, which Deibert calls hypermedia, will have on the distribution of political power in the next century. Deibert tracks the transformation of Europe from the medieval to the modern and then turns to the hypermedia age, where new digital technologies such as the Internet, encryption, and high-resolution satellite imaging favor nonterritorial institutions and communities, shifting political authority and policymaking from individual nations to transnational corporations, global financial markets, and nongovernmental organizations and activists.

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Review

Depicts the links across some six centuries of history and a vast array of modern and postmodern concepts, leaving the reader with a keen sense of both the continuities and changes that have marked the human condition. The book is a 'must' read for anyone eager to probe beneath the surface of world affairs.

Synopsis

This text considers the ebb and flow of political power and authority as a function of changes in modes of communication. It examines the emergence of printing and its impact on the transformation of medieval to the modern order and then considers the impact of digital electronic communications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0231107137
• ISBN 13: 9780231107136
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 344